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|accepted_name=Spergularia rubra
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) J. Presl & C. Presl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. ech.
|place=94. 1819
|year=1819
}}
|common_names=Red sand-spurrey;spergulaire rouge  
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Arenaria rubra
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=1: 423. 1753
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Tissa rubra
|authority=(Linnaeus) Britton
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Polycarpoideae;Spergularia;Spergularia rubra
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Polycarpoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Spergularia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Spergularia rubra]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 17, 155
|treatment_page=page 19
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual or short-lived perennial, delicate, 4–25 cm, stipitate-glandular in inflorescence. <b>Taproots</b> slender to ± stout. <b>Stems</b> erect to ascending or prostrate, usually much-branched proximally; main stem 0.3–0.5 mm diam. proximally. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules conspicuous, shiny white, lanceolate, 3.5–5 mm, apex long-acuminate; blade filiform to linear, 0.4–1.5 cm, scarcely fleshy, apex apiculate to spine-tipped; axillary leaves 2–4+ per cluster. <b>Cymes</b> simple to 3+-compound or flowers solitary and axillary. <b>Pedicels</b> ascending to reflexed. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals connate 0.5–0.7 mm proximally, lobes often 3-veined, lanceolate, (2–)2.5–3.2 mm, to 4 mm in fruit, margins 0.1–0.3 mm wide, apex obtuse to acute; petals pink, obovate to ovate, 0.9–1 times as long as sepals; stamens 6–10; styles 0.6–0.8 mm. <b>Capsules</b> greenish to tan, 3.5–5 mm, 1–1.2 times as long as sepals. <b>Seeds</b> red-brown to dark brown, with submarginal groove, broadly ovate or ± truncate, angular at broad end, plump, 0.4–0.6 mm, sculpturing of parallel, wavy lines, margins with peglike papillae (30×); wing absent. <b>2n</b> = 18, 27, 36, 54 (all Europe).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Open forests, gravelly glades, meadows, mud flats, roadsides, disturbed places
|elevation=0-2400 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;B.C.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;Nev.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;Utah;Vt.;Va.;Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.;Europe;Asia;introduced in South America;Australia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p><i>Spergularia rubra</i> was collected in 1901 on ballast in Alabama (Mohr, DS), the only record in the southeastern United States. It is the most widely distributed <i>Spergularia</i> species found outside of saline areas in the flora and has been in North America since at least the 1860s.</p>
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name=Spergularia rubra
|authority=(Linnaeus) J. Presl & C. Presl
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Tissa rubra
|basionyms=Arenaria rubra
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Open forests, gravelly glades, meadows, mud flats, roadsides, disturbed places
|elevation=0-2400 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;B.C.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;Nev.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;Utah;Vt.;Va.;Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.;Europe;Asia;introduced in South America;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. ech.
|publication year=1819
|special status=Weedy;Introduced
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_27.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Polycarpoideae
|genus=Spergularia
|species=Spergularia rubra
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